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namespace Nucleus.Geometry
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Abstract base class for rules which are applied to vertices in
    /// order to define their position by reference to some other object
    /// and/or criteria.
    /// </summary>
    [Serializable]
    public abstract class VertexRule
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Apply this rule to the vertex.  This may result in the specified vertex being
        /// moved or deleted.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="toVertex">The vertex that the rule is to be applied to.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public abstract bool ApplyRule(Vertex toVertex);
    }
}

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Q: How to create a procedure that shows a table (select * from emp) I want to create a procedure on PL/SQL that only shows the (select * from emp) from my SQL table.
I am learning about procedures and I can basically change and update the table, but I want to show the modifications I made.

A: Or just use SQL.
select * from emp

Adding PL/SQL to the mix doesn't really get you anything. If anything, it could make things harder/slower.
In SQL Server it's quite common to use T-SQL procedures to nothing but selects and return query results. This is not so common in Oracle.
You most definitely CAN use PL/SQL to execute SQL - but then you would generally do something WITH those results, with the logic in your PL/SQL. And then you would do something with those results - perhaps put them in a new object/table, or return a subset of them with a message to the caller of your PL/SQL program.
But if you are truly ONLY running a SQL and you want to get the results, then see Littlefoot's answer. Just be aware that going from PL/SQL to SQL, there's often a context switch at the Oracle optimizer/engine level, and there could be a performance hit.
To your question - how to see JUST the changes you made. See the RETURNING clause. There are some good examples here that show how to make changes AND get back said changes all in one code block..with plsql. In particular see statement/example 7.

A: Here's one option - ref cursor returned as an OUT parameter.
SQL> create or replace procedure p_test (par_out out sys_refcursor) as
  2  begin
  3    open par_out for select * From dept;
  4  end;
  5  /

Procedure created.

SQL> var rc refcursor
SQL>
SQL> exec p_test(:rc);

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> print rc

    DEPTNO DNAME                LOC
---------- -------------------- --------------------
        10 ACCOUNTING           NEW YORK
        20 RESEARCH             DALLAS
        30 SALES                CHICAGO
        40 OPERATIONS           BOSTON

SQL>

A: If you're just getting started, then DBMS_OUTPUT is your friend to output anything from the database to your client program.
So you might just to just loop around the rows in your table, eg
SQL> set serverout on
SQL> begin
  2    for i in ( select * from emp )
  3    loop
  4      dbms_output.put_line(i.empno||'-'||i.ename);
  5    end loop;
  6  end;
  7  /
7369-SMITH
7499-ALLEN
7521-WARD
7566-JONES
7654-MARTIN
7698-BLAKE
7782-CLARK
7788-SCOTT
7839-KING
7844-TURNER
7876-ADAMS
7900-JAMES
7902-FORD
7934-MILLER

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

But, if you're starting out on the PL/SQL journey its time to grab a book on it, or head on over to devgym.oracle.com and livesql.oracle.com for assistance and tutorials.
Welcome to the PL/SQL club!
As Jeff said, when you get into some "real" programming, it can an easy temptation to use PL/SQL code where simply a SQL statement would do.  So once you've learned some more PLSQL, ensure you don't use it to "reinvent the wheel" so to speak. PL/SQL is used to extend what SQL can, not replace it.

A: **Try This **
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION DBFUN_RETURN_TABDATA RETURN SYS_REFCURSOR IS
REC_TAB SYS_REFCURSOR;
BEGIN
    OPEN REC_TAB FOR SELECT * FROM SCOTT.EMP;
    RETURN REC_TAB;
END;

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Rear Admiral Seth Amoama, Chief of Naval Staff, said this at the end of year get together, of the 37 Military Hospital, which was held at the 37 Officers Mess, in Accra.
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The Chief of Naval Staff said this would not only improve upon the 37 Hospital, but health delivery in the country in general.
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He said the hospital was working towards improving upon its effectiveness in health delivery, especially during crucial situations such as national emergencies.
Brig. Gen Yeboah appealed for support towards the hospital's improvement and said whilst the government did its best, extra help was definitely needed.
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Jakob Kägi (* 25. Juli 1886 in Egg; † 7. April 1950 in Zürich; heimatberechtigt in Egg) war ein Schweizer Politiker (SP).

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Kägi besuchte von 1902 bis 1904 das Lehrerseminar in Küsnacht und von 1904 bis 1906 die Eisenbahnschule in Biel. Danach arbeitete er als SBB-Stationsbeamter. Er präsidierte zudem von 1912 bis 1918 den Stationsgehilfenverband und von 1919 bis 1939 den Stationspersonalverband. Im Jahr 1919 gründete er den Schweizer Eisenbahnerverband mit.

Für die Sozialdemokratische Partei (SP) sass er von 1919 bis 1934 sowie von 1936 bis 1939 im Gemeinderat in Erlenbach. Zudem war er von 1919 bis 1950 Nationalrat. Während dieser Zeit sass er auch für die SP im Zürcher Kantonsrat (1917–1939; Präsident im Jahr 1934/1935) und im Regierungsrat (1939–1950; Präsident in den Jahren 1943/1944 und 1949/1950). Im Regierungsrat leitete er die Gesundheits- und Armendirektion, von 1942 bis 1947 die Direktion Inneres und Justiz und ab 1947 die Baudirektion.

Als Regierungsrat galt Kägi als Förderer des Flughafens Kloten. Er ist im Amt als Regierungs- und Nationalrat verstorben.

Rolle im Landesstreik 1918
Jakob Kägi hat während des Landesstreiks 1918 bei seinem damaligen Arbeitgeber SBB zusammen mit anderen Personen den Eisenbahntelegraphen der Institution zur Kommunikation für den Streik verwendet. Aus diesem Grund wurde er verhaftet und sass gemäss eigenen Angaben 33 Tage im Gefängnis. Im Rahmen einer anschliessenden Diskussion über die Weiterführung des Arbeitsverhältnisses schrieb der damalige Betriebschef am 3. Januar 1919 «Wir bemerken dazu, dass Kägi laut der Aussage des Untersuchungsrichters der am meisten belastete Beamte ist. […] Kägi ist ein guter Beamter, sein Personalbogen ist gut […] er hat gegenüber jedermann den Dienst klaglos besorgt. […] zu beachten ist auf der anderen Seite der Umstand, dass Kägi der Anstifter der ganzen Aktion gewesen ist, immerhin ist er in die Streikbewegung erst getreten, als sie schon von anderer Seite in Gang gesetzt worden ist.»  Per Beschluss vom 28. Februar 1919 wurde das Arbeitsverhältnis fortgeführt und Kägi wieder in seiner früheren Stellung beschäftigt.

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Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries
from the Court of Appeals of Oregon
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MANDATE ISSUED.
Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Comm'n, 584 U. S. ____ (2018).
Rescheduled.
Reply of petitioners Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir filed. (Distributed)
Brief of respondent Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries in opposition filed.
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including January 25, 2019.
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 26, 2018 to January 25, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed.
Brief amici curiae of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, et. al filed.
Brief amici curiae of Public Advocate of the United States, et al. filed.
Brief amici curiae of The States of Texas, et al. filed.
Brief amicus curiae of Thomas More Society filed.
Brief amicus curiae of Foundation for Moral Law filed.
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Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 26, 2018 to December 26, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
Brief amicus curiae of Institute for Faith and Family filed.
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioners, Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir.
Blanket Consent filed by Respondent, Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries.
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 26, 2018)
Application (18A246) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until October 19, 2018.
Application (18A246) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 19, 2018 to October 19, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.
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Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
The coast redwood, also called the California redwood, is the tallest living thing in the world. It also grows to great volume. One grove of trees in Humboldt Redwoods State park contains the largest measured concentration of living material, or biomass, in the world.
The current natural range of the coast redwood is confined to a coastal strip about 450 miles long from the southwest corner of Oregon to southern Monterey county. This strip is 5 to 35 miles wide and covers approximately 2.2 million acres. Old growth redwoods occupy about 200,000 acres, most of which is in state and national parks. About 600,000 acres of coast redwood habitat are in commercial timber production.
Coast Redwood Identification:
Needles are one-half to three-quarters of an inch long with sharp ends, shaped like a double-edged sword, and occur in a flat plane forming feathery sprays.
Cones are about an inch long, hard and woody, made up of thick, wrinkled scales.
Bark is reddish-brown, thick, rough, and deeply furrowed and up to two feet thick.
Natural range of the coast redwood
Coast redwood can be found at elevations ranging from sea level to 3,000 feet. It is typically found at elevations ranging from 100 - 2,300 feet. Through the northern parts of its range coast redwood can be found on all slopes, in the southern portion of its range it can be found on western and northern slopes. In the extreme southern portion of its range coast redwood is found in narrow canyons bottoms near ocean.
The coast redwood grows in a very humid region along the Pacific ocean. This incredibly productive environment delivers substantial rainfall in the fall, winter and spring. Temperatures are moderate year round, with mild wet winters, and dry summers.
The redwood's range seems to be determined more by the distribution of summer fog than the actual amount of rainfall. Fog actually condenses on tree crowns and drips down to water the roots of the tree during the dry summer months. The humidity of fog also decreases trees' water loss from evaporation and transpiration. Redwoods can even generate their own fog, from the up to 500 gallons of water a large tree may transpire into the air per day. Redwood located beyond the fog belt is limited to moist sites.
Despite its reliance on fog in its natural range, redwoods have been grown very successfully far from the coast in plantations and as ornamentals in the Central Valley, at low elevations in the Sierra Nevada, and in Europe and New Zealand.
Climate in the coast redwood's natural range is moderate with precipitation ranging 25-122 inches annually, mostly as winter rain, but with a large degree of fog drip. Temperatures average 50 - 60° degrees Fahrenheit with the minimum being 10° on the coast and 30° on the eastern edge.
Redwoods grow mostly on soils derived from sandstone which formed under the ocean floor thousands of years ago. It is also found on soils formed from limestone, slate, chert, and schist. Redwood is not found growing on soils which have high amounts of magnesium and sodium.
The redwood region is rugged and mountainous with ridges which are cut by deep narrow valleys. Much of the terrain is steep and contains many streams. The best stands are found in deep soils on benches along large streams, on moist coastal plains, river deltas, and valleys facing the ocean.
On flat ground near streams redwood reach its maximum growth rates and size. Redwood growth depends on the soil moisture available during the course of the year. Redwoods grow when minimum soil moisture ranges from 18 to 86%, but they grow best when soil moisture does not go below 60 %. Redwood has no taproot but its roots spread out over large areas.
Although many redwood stands are close to the sea, they do not seem to tolerate ocean winds or salts and so do not grow on exposed hillsides that face the ocean. Redwood trees grow smaller in size and are replaced by other tree species as altitude, dryness, and slope increase.
Coast redwoods regenerate by seed, stump sprouting, and artificial cuttings. Redwoods start to bear seeds when trees are 5 to 15 years old, although seed viability increases as trees get older. Seeds are shed after cones open in the fall. Seeds are small and light and fall up to 200 feet uphill and 400 feet downhill under average conditions.
Germination rates are typically low. Seeds germinate best on mineral soil, but also on litter, logs, or debris, in shade or full sun if there is enough soil moisture. Redwood seedlings require greater soil moisture than most associated trees because they do not have root hairs. Redwood seedlings are also very vulnerable to infection by damping off fungi (Botrytis) during their first year.
The coast redwood is a prodigious sprouter. It can sprout from stumps and root crowns within 2 to 3 weeks of being cut. Over a hundred sprouts may arise from the stump of one cut tree. Sprouts develop their own root system and create circles of new trees around old stumps. These new trees are all genetic clones of the original tree and may have interconnected root systems which helps their stability.
Sprouts grow more quickly than seedlings, sometimes achieving heights of seven feet in a single growing season. Sprouting capacity decreases with size and age.
Redwood grows in nearly pure stands as well as interspersed with other conifers and hardwoods. Pure stands of redwood are found only on the best sites; moist flat ground along rivers with gentle slope below 1,000 feet in elevation.
Redwood predominate in these locations because it is better adapted to flooding than other trees. Repeated flooding builds up the soil level at the base of trees. Redwood adapts by putting out new roots higher up in the soil while other trees are killed.
Coast redwood usually dominates when growing with other trees. Redwoods grow very quickly in full sunlight, often 18 inches in the first year, and 2 to 6 feet a year for the first 10 years. It can also grow faster than associated species in deep shade.
Redwood is often found growing with Douglas-fir which can grow as quickly as redwood on many sites. Other associated species include western hemlock, grand fir, and Sitka spruce. On drier slopes tan oak, madrone, maple, and California bay laurel grow along with the conifers. Tan oak and Pacific madrone, like the coast redwood, often resprout when cut, and can reoccupy a site as quickly as redwood.
Redwood is shade tolerant, meaning that it can survive at very low light levels. Small trees in the deep shade of the forest floor can survive for many years and then grow vigorously when events around them, such as logging or fire, increase the sunlight they receive.
Large trees and dense stocking combine to produce high yields. More than 81 % of commercial redwood land is classified as highly productive.
Young redwoods can grow to 100 or 150' in height in 50 years. In open stands they can grow more than an inch in diameter per year.
On industrial land, clearcutting is the preferred silvicultural system. Shelterwood, and selection cut are also used, though both are considered less economical because residual trees may be toppled by wind or damaged during logging, or may not grow well. Redwood's tolerance and ability to sprout allow great latitude in the choice of silvicultural system.
Plants commonly associated with redwoods
Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)
sword fern (Polystichum munitum)
salal (Gaultheria shallon)
blueblossom (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus)
California hackberry (Vaccinium ovatum)
Pacific rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum)
Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
Coyotebrush (Baccharis pilularis)
Snowbrush (Ceanothus velutinus)
Trees Commonly Associated with Redwoods:
Common Conifer Species
Douglas-fir throughout range
Sitka spruce north of Humboldt Bay
Grand fir and western hemlock from northern Sonoma county north
Less common conifers
Port-Orford cedar
Pacific yew
western redcedar
California torreya
Gowen cypress
bishop pine
knobcone pine
Sugar pine
tanoak
Pacific madrone
vine maple
bigleaf maple
red alder
giant chinkapin
Oregon ash
Pacific bayberry
Oregon white oak
cascara buckthorn
California laurel
Damaging Agents
Damaging agents include fire, cankers and fungi, and mammals. Although old coast redwood is very resistant to fire damage because of its thick bark, young trees, especially under age 20, may be killed outright. However, the stumps of young trees can quickly resprout and reoccupy a burned site.
Other damaging agents are branch canker, and heart rots. Branch canker (Coryneum spp.) girdles stems and branches, and can be especially harmful in plantations. Heart rots including brown cubical rot (Poria sequoiae) and white ring rot (Poria albipellucida) can cause extensive cull.
Wood rats girdle and strip the bark of redwood seedlings, and black bears strip bark from young trees.
The insects found on redwoods, flatheaded twig borers (Anthaxia aeneogaster), redwood bark beetles (Phloeosinus sequoiae and Phloeosinus cristatus), and the sequoia pitch moth (Vespamima sequoiae) do not cause significant damage.
Redwood is named for the color of its bark and heartwood. The high tannin content of the wood gives the trees remarkable resistance to fungus, diseases, and insect infestations, reasons why redwood lumber is so desirable.
Redwood is also very resistant to water associated rot, making it a preferred wood for exterior siding, outdoor decks, hot tubs, vats and fences. Redwood burls are also valued as table tops, veneers, bowls, and house plants. The tough and fibrous bark is used as insulation, mulch, and fuel.
This text was largely summarized from an article originally by David F. Olson, Jr., Supervisory Research Forester (retired), Douglass F. Roy, Research Forester (deceased), and Gerald A. Walters, Research Forester, USFS Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, CA that appears in Burns, Russell M., and Barbara H. Honkala, tech. coords. 1990. Silvics of North America: 1. Conifers. Agriculture Handbook 654. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington, DC. vol. 1, 675 p.
Interested readers are referred to the original article for more detailed and technical information and references. Publication of this series was in part funded by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection under Contract numbers 8CA96027 and 8CA96028.
Redwood resources
Proceedings of the Coast Redwood Science Symposium—2016 September 13–16, 2016 Sequoia Conference Center, Eureka, CA
Proceedings of coast redwood forests in a changing California: A symposium for scientists and managers. June 21-23, 2011, UC Santa Cruz, CA.
Proceedings of the Redwood Region Forest Science Symposium: What Does the Future Hold? March 15-17, 2004, Rohnert Park, CA.
Proceedings of Conference on Coast Redwood Forest Ecology and Management, June 18-20, 1996.
Rx workshops materials
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Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)
Forestry Institute for Teachers
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Q: Android Studio Emulator Shuts Down On Debug App When I go to debug my app in Android Studio, I get the following:
03/11 16:52:58: Launching mobile
$ adb shell am start -n "com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug/com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.FamiliarActivity" -a android.intent.action.MAIN -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER -D
Waiting for application to come online: com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug.test | com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug
Waiting for application to come online: com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug.test | com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug
Waiting for application to come online: com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug.test | com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug
Connecting to com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug
Capturing and displaying logcat messages from application. This behavior can be disabled in the "Logcat output" section of the "Debugger" settings page.
W/ActivityThread: Application com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug is waiting for the debugger on port 8100...
I/System.out: Sending WAIT chunk
I/zygote: Debugger is active
Connected to the target VM, address: 'localhost:8834', transport: 'socket'
I/System.out: Debugger has connected
I/System.out: waiting for debugger to settle...
I/System.out: waiting for debugger to settle...
I/chatty: uid=10079(com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug) identical 4 lines
I/System.out: waiting for debugger to settle...
I/System.out: debugger has settled (1498)
D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                  Process: com.gelakinetic.mtgfam.debug, PID: 9164
                  DeadSystemException: The system died; earlier logs will point to the root cause
I/Process: Sending signal. PID: 9164 SIG: 9
Disconnected from the target VM, address: 'localhost:8834', transport: 'socket'

I'm sure it isn't the code, because it launches fine on my other computer and another person's.
I'm running the AVD in Software rendering mode because it crashes otherwise (I think it has to do with nouveau drivers?).
This DOES NOT happen when I launch normally (Green Arrow, Shift-F10).
This is a fresh installation of both Arch and Android Studio.


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Aric K. Perminter Joins Cybercrime Support Network Board of Directors
Feb 12, 2019 | Newsroom, Press Release
Lynx Technology Partners Founder and Chairman Continues Commitment to Supporting the Challenges within the Cybersecurity Field.
PITTSBURGH (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Lynx Technology Partners (Lynx), one of Inc. Magazine's fastest-growing private companies and ranked among the top US security companies for consecutive years, proudly announces that Founder and Chairman, Aric K. Perminter has joined the board of directors at the Cybercrime Support Network. Cybercrime Support Network (CSN) is a public-private, nonprofit collaboration created to meet the challenges facing millions of individuals and businesses affected each and every day by cybercrime.
"I was immediately drawn to CSN's mission because every human and business is one click away from becoming a cybercrime victim," stated Mr. Perminter. "Mrs. Judge has assembled an impressive leadership team with the required experience, passion and commitment to deliver a supportive program designed to eliminate repeat incidents – making our world safer one victim at a time."
CSN's mission is to improve the plight of Americans facing the ever-growing impact of cybercrime by bringing together national partners to support cybercrime victims. Before, by pointing consumers and businesses to the best information from experts in cybersecurity education and awareness; During, by enabling a local, one-stop access to get someone on the phone who is empathic and responsive and can direct callers to the appropriate support based on crime type; After, by providing key contacts to guide in recovery and tools to prevent re-victimization.
A visionary and leader, Mr. Perminter guided Lynx Technology Partners through its evolution into a multi-million dollar Information Security and Risk Management company. In his 25-year career, Mr. Perminter has held a wide variety of leadership positions across key parts of Information Technology businesses. He founded Lynx in March 2009 and served as the CEO through August 2015. He is also currently serving as the President of the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurtiy Professionals (ICMCP), a non-profit organization focused on achieving the consistent representation of women and minorities in cybersecurity through programs designed to foster recruitment, inclusion and retention – one person at a time.
Mr. Perminter represents a number of external venues. He is the second member and shareholder of THREAT STREAM, serves on the executive board of BCT Partners, is a member of the Employer Advisory Council for Per Scholas, an Advisory Board Member of CloudeAssurance, and investor in SecurityCurrent.
"As CSN takes on the complex mission of serving millions of cybercrime victims in the US, we rely on the passion for service and cybersecurity expertise of our board of directors to guide our team," said CSN CEO/President Kristin Judge. "Mr. Perminter brings the specialized skill set and deep understanding of the issues needed to drive CSN forward. We are truly grateful for his willingness to join our efforts."
Read more at PRWeb.com


A new tool is being offered through Windows Update; the System Update Readiness (SUR) Tool. It is designed to help diagnose and fix issues that are preventing Windows updates or Service Packs from installing correctly. According to the documentation it is only offered to systems that are experiencing one of the conditions that the tool could resolve. (How it can determine this without first running is beyond me.) The tool runs on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Like the monthly Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (WMSRT), it runs a onetime scan of your system to determine if it is experiencing one of the issues it can detect and fix. A log of this activity is written to %SYSTEMROOT%LogsCBSCheckSUR.log. As of this writing the tool is presented in Windows Update as System Update Readiness Toll for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB947821) [February 2011]. This leads me to beleive that it will be updated and offered in new "versions" further on.
You can also download the tool manually and run it, check the first link below.
On one system I experienced an error when trying to install Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1; An unknown error has occurred; error code 0x800f0818. I ran the SUR Tool and it detected an error in the %SYSTEMROOT%ServicingPackages folder, which it was able to repair. After that SP1 installed successfully.
One strange thing to note in this case was that I was installing SP1 through Windows Update, and both SP1 and the SUR tool were selected for install. For some reason the SP1 install ran first and failed, then the SUR tool ran and repaired the error that prevented the Service Pack from installing. Should have been the other way around.
What is the System Update Readiness Tool?


Taylor discusses how her father, John W. Newberry, came to New Mexico Territory in the early 1900s and his acquisition of land in the Mesilla Valley prior to the completion of the Elephant Butte Dam, the acquisition of "surplus" U.S. Army mules and a wagon following Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. She discusses John W. Newberry in detail including farming endeavors, awards and accomplishments, and role in establishing the Southwestern Irrigated Growers Association (SWIG), his role in church activities and in family and community social life.
A brief summary of Thal's personal history. Primary focus of the interview is on her part in the founding of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
The cotton business in Las Cruces from 1927-1997.
Briefly discusses his personal and work history. The majority of the interview details the founding of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
Consultant discusses his years as a researcher and professor of plant physiology at New Mexico State University.
Torres discusses personal history including some information about his work as a brand inspector. He describes the impact of the drought of the 1990s and low cattle prices on cattle ranching. Discusses his involvement with the museum, its mission, and his vision of its development.
Details family history of ranching in southeastern New Mexico from 1903 to 1995.


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Shelley Campbell
Shelley Campbell became CEO at the Waikato Bay of Plenty Cancer Society in 2017, after being Chief Executive of the Sir Peter Blake Trust since 2010. Prior to this, she was the Chief Executive of Waikato Primary Health (the nation's second largest Primary Health Organisation). During her tenure she led the implementation of the Primary Health Care Strategy in the Waikato and has built a variety of relationships and initiatives with others.
CEO, Waikato Bay of Plenty Cancer Society
A number of these initiatives have become models for the nation. These include a collaborative dental project with the Ministry of Social Development with low income clients, rural scholarships to encourage workforce retention, multiple projects to improve access to health care for high need populations, and the "Fit 4 School" project which has become the prototype for the Ministry of Health's new "Ready 4 School" project.
Shelley served on a wide range of health and inter-sectoral groups and her leadership is widely respected by staff, the wider community and by health professionals both in the Waikato and nation-wide. As a person, Shelley's strength lies in her ability to focus and motivate others to push boundaries and find solutions. She listens carefully, plans thoroughly and acts decisively.
Shelley was appointed Ministerial Chair of Cancer Council and served on the Board of Cancer Council from 2007 – 2015. In 2015 Shelley was appointed an Honorary Captain of the Royal New Zealand Navy.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id...


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Vista's image problem personified
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Mod...WAFFLES!?!?
It might not have even been a story meriting any extent of coverage -- Microsoft's hiring yesterday of comedian Jerry Seinfeld as its new commercial spokesperson -- had it not been for the fact that Microsoft has an image problem. That problem is due in large part to Windows Vista, and the public perception of it as somewhat less than the savior of modern computing that it was originally promoted to be in the early months of 2007.
As was widely reported yesterday, Microsoft is reportedly investing $300 million in a new advertising campaign starring comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and designed by the firm responsible for Burger King's popular, yet disturbing "King" ads. You may recall, the ones where ordinary people find themselves conversing with a plastic, motionless, mute Burger King statue that they find in their midst for no apparent reason.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky's new ad campaign for Microsoft will reportedly pair Seinfeld (although Hollywood sources are reporting that Will Farrell and Chris Rock were also considered) with the always hilarious Bill Gates, whom we hope will not appear as plastic or immobile. The campaign is being called "Windows, Not Walls;" and for some reason, visions of Rowan & Martin's famous "joke wall" immediately come to mind.
It is the very fact that there will be a pairing at all for comedy purposes that will ensure this campaign will be compared for message, effectiveness, humor...lighting, cinematography, wardrobe...with the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" campaign mounted by Apple. Regardless of whether that campaign has the "reach-to-conversion" ratio of other campaigns for cars or home appliances or even computers, Apple's will most likely be viewed as among the most successful advertising productions in the history of the medium.
Not that Seinfeld's previous work in advertising has been all that bad. Just last year, he was a spokesperson for HP in its continuing "The Computer is Personal Again" campaign, which has included Mark Cuban, Pharell, Vera Wang, Shaun White, and Serena Williams, among others. That series of ads has coincided with an increase in notebook sales that amounts to 26% worldwide.
Source: BetaNews
mqudsi
Yeah, pretty interesting news. Here's my reply from another site:
Well, Apple has long made its "bang" by focusing on what's cool. While their products also do just work and tend to get the job done, their cash comes from the fact that it's cool to get the job done the Mac way.Microsoft's "name" comes (came?) from reliability in the business industry, where code you wrote almost two decades ago DOS 5 would run on Windows XP today (assuming you used their APIs for everything). Windows 2000 was a fast, snappy, and efficient OS that got the job done. Windows XP has a bit more "homey" but as the years passed and the service packs came in, it grew to fit that same role.
Windows has never been advertised as a truly "fun" OS until Vista's "the WOW starts now" campaign; unfortunately, I get the feeling that they're turning to the hip crowd because they've failed to stand out in any other way. From performance to reliability, Vista has flopped (I'm using it now, fulltime) - so they're looking for anything else that may save them some face.
So while it's no biggie for Apple to start advertising through Sienfeld, it is for Microsoft who have never been the sort of people to do this kind of thing.
Great reply. But you are a bit off. Microsoft hired Sienfeld. Not Apple.
I know - that was a reply to "what if Apple did - would you be saying the same thing?"
Ahh okay. I got it now.


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Dickens the Inimitable
Charles Dickens, by Charles Baugniet, 1858.
From The New York Review of Books:
Is Dickens the greatest of English novelists? Few would contest that he is the most English of great English novelists, and that his most accomplished novels—Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend, and David Copperfield—are works of surpassing genius, thrumming with energy, imagination, and something resembling white-hot inspiration; his gift for portraiture is arguably as great as Shakespeare's, and his versatility as a prose stylist is dazzling, as in this famous opening of Bleak House:
London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun….
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights.
And equally characteristic of Dickens, a chapter opening in the lesser-regarded and uncompleted The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in which a natural observation acquires a portentous metaphoric significance:
Whosoever has observed that sedate and clerical bird, the rook, may perhaps have noticed that when he wings his way homeward towards nightfall, in a sedate and clerical company, two rooks will suddenly detach themselves from the rest, will retrace their flight for some distance, and will there poise and linger; conveying to mere men the fancy that it is of some occult importance to the body politic, that this artful couple should pretend to have renounced connection with it.
Irresistibly the reader is drawn into the voice—exquisitely lyric, yet with a profound melancholy beneath—of the child Philip Pirrip—"Pip"—of Great Expectations:
Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dykes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
Dickens is so brilliant a stylist, his vision of the world so idiosyncratic and yet so telling, that one might say that his subject is his unique rendering of his subject, in an echo of Mark Rothko's statement, "The subject of the painting is the painting"—except of course, Dickens's great subject was nothing so subjective or so exclusionary, but as much of the world as he could render. If Dickens's prose fiction has "defects"—excesses of melodrama, sentimentality, contrived plots, and manufactured happy endings—these are the defects of his era, which for all his greatness Dickens had not the rebellious spirit to resist; he was at heart a crowd-pleaser, a theatrical entertainer, with no interest in subverting the conventions of the novel as his great successors D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf would have; nor did he contemplate the subtle and ironic counterminings of human relations in the way of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, who brought to the English novel an element of nuanced psychological realism not previously explored. Yet among English writers Dickens is, as he once called himself, part-jesting and part-serious, "the inimitable."
"The Mystery of Charles Dickens", Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, The Victorians, Writers
'Dickens' Stories About Children' by Charles Dickens added to Project Gutenberg
Who the Dickens?!
Always Dickens at Christmas


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Ministerial arms to set up modern-age infrastructure engineer training course
Construction on Hun Sen Boulevard in Meanchey district's Chak Angre Krom commune in southern Phnom Penh on November 30. Hean Rangsey
Voun Dara
Publication date 13 January 2021 | 22:39 ICT
The Techo Sen Institute of Public Works and Transport (TSI) under the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) under the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish an undergraduate technical skill training programme that will help facilitate the construction of transport infrastructure in the Kingdom.
The MoU was signed by ITC director Om Romny and public works ministry secretary of state Im Nithara on January 12.
The signing ceremony was also attended by public works minister Sun Chanthol and education minister Hang Chuon Naron.
Chanthol said it was vital to establish training centres at the two institutes because Cambodia currently has no programme focused on skills necessary for road, bridge, ports or railway construction and has always had to rely on foreign workers and companies over the years.
"I want to see our Cambodian children, this generation and the next generation, have the same knowledge as our ancestors once did when they built temples that are world famous for their beauty and built with such lasting quality that they are still standing after a thousand years," he added.
Chanthol believes that Cambodian students will have sufficient capacity to build transportation infrastructure in Cambodia efficiently and to high standards of quality after graduating from the new training programme equipped with the latest technical skills.
According to Chanthol, for the academic year 2020-2021 the programme will enrol 200 students at TSI and ITC. The institutes are still in discussions regarding the proposed fees and possible scholarship opportunities.
He said the ministry will attempt to find funding for scholarships through development partners so that any students experiencing financial difficulty who are talented and have the ambition to learn these skills will have an opportunity to do so.
"We are able to build educational institutions to provide knowledge to Cambodian children. But all Cambodian children must learn devotion to serving their country and be motivated by a passion to use their knowledge to burnish its international reputation and bring lasting glory to the name Cambodia," Chanthol said.
Education minister Chuon Naron said this is the first time that a Cambodian institution has had a programme offering a bachelor's degree in engineering of this type since the 1980's. For many years Cambodia has had to send its students abroad to study these skills.
"I hope that in the future we will be able to construct bridges across the Mekong River and railways throughout the country ourselves," he said.
ITC director Om Romny said this programme is the foundation for the future development of important national infrastructure, especially strengthening capacity and improving the regulatory framework for the rapidly developing transportation sector in Cambodia.
"This MoU is essentially an agreement between our two schools to train technical skills in public works and transportation as part of a dual degree programme for which the ICT side brings an integrated curriculum developed with higher educational institutions in the European Union, Japan and ASEAN," Romny said.
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}

bool ChLinkMask::IsUnilateral(int i) {
    if (Constr_N(i).IsUnilateral())
        return true;
    return false;
}

int ChLinkMask::GetMaskDoc() {
    int tot = 0;
    for (int j = 0; j < nconstr; j++) {
        if (Constr_N(j).IsActive())
            tot++;
    }
    return tot;
}

int ChLinkMask::GetMaskDoc_d() {
    int cnt = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < nconstr; i++) {
        if (Constr_N(i).IsActive())
            if (this->IsUnilateral(i))  // if (Constr_N(i).IsUnilateral())  BETTER?
                cnt++;
    }
    return cnt;
}

int ChLinkMask::GetMaskDoc_c() {
    return (GetMaskDoc() - GetMaskDoc_d());
}

ChConstraintTwoBodies* ChLinkMask::GetActiveConstrByNum(int mnum) {
    int cnt = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < nconstr; i++) {
        if (Constr_N(i).IsActive()) {
            if (cnt == mnum)
                return &Constr_N(i);
            cnt++;
        }
    }
    return NULL;
}

int ChLinkMask::SetActiveRedundantByArray(int* mvector, int mcount) {
    int cnt;

    ChLinkMask* newmask = Clone();
    for (int elem = 0; elem < mcount; elem++) {
        cnt = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < nconstr; i++) {
            if (constraints[i]->IsActive()) {
                if (cnt == mvector[elem])
                    newmask->constraints[i]->SetRedundant(true);
                cnt++;
            }
        }
    }

    // Replace the mask with updated one.
    for (int i = 0; i < nconstr; i++) {
        delete constraints[i];
        constraints[i] = newmask->constraints[i]->Clone();
    }

    return mcount;
}

// set lock =ON for costraints which were disabled because redundant
int ChLinkMask::RestoreRedundant() {
    int tot = 0;
    for (int j = 0; j < nconstr; j++) {
        if (Constr_N(j).IsRedundant()) {
            Constr_N(j).SetRedundant(false);
            tot++;
        }
    }
    return tot;
}

int ChLinkMask::SetAllDisabled(bool mdis) {
    int cnt = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < nconstr; i++) {
        if (Constr_N(i).IsDisabled() != mdis) {
            Constr_N(i).SetDisabled(mdis);
            cnt++;
        }
    }

    return cnt;
}

int ChLinkMask::SetAllBroken(bool mdis) {
    int cnt = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < nconstr; i++) {
        if (Constr_N(i).IsBroken() != mdis) {
            Constr_N(i).SetBroken(mdis);
            cnt++;
        }
    }

    return cnt;
}

void ChLinkMask::ArchiveOUT(ChArchiveOut& marchive) {
    //// TODO
}

void ChLinkMask::ArchiveIN(ChArchiveIn& marchive) {
    //// TODO
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Lock formulation LF link mask:
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Register into the object factory, to enable run-time
// dynamic creation and persistence
CH_FACTORY_REGISTER(ChLinkMaskLF)

ChLinkMaskLF::ChLinkMaskLF() {
    ResetNconstr(7);  // the LF formulation uses 7 constraint flags
}

void ChLinkMaskLF::SetLockMask(bool x, bool y, bool z, bool e0, bool e1, bool e2, bool e3) {
    if (x)
        Constr_X().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_LOCK);
    else
        Constr_X().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_FREE);

    if (y)
        Constr_Y().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_LOCK);
    else
        Constr_Y().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_FREE);

    if (z)
        Constr_Z().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_LOCK);
    else
        Constr_Z().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_FREE);

    if (e0)
        Constr_E0().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_LOCK);
    else
        Constr_E0().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_FREE);

    if (e1)
        Constr_E1().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_LOCK);
    else
        Constr_E1().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_FREE);

    if (e2)
        Constr_E2().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_LOCK);
    else
        Constr_E2().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_FREE);

    if (e3)
        Constr_E3().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_LOCK);
    else
        Constr_E3().SetMode(CONSTRAINT_FREE);
}

void ChLinkMaskLF::ArchiveOUT(ChArchiveOut& marchive) {
    //// TODO
}

void ChLinkMaskLF::ArchiveIN(ChArchiveIn& marchive) {
    //// TODO
}

}  // end namespace chrono


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HONDA MANUFACTURING OF ALABAMA, LLC v. Ronald W. ALFORD.
Stephen J. Bumgarner of Burr & Forman, LLP, Birmingham, for appellant. James T. Sasser of Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, LLP, Columbus, Georgia; and Jennifer Cunningham Barber of Rice & Barber, LLC, Gadsden, for appellee.
Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC ("the employer"), appeals from a judgment entered by the Etowah Circuit Court on a workers' compensation claim brought against the employer by Ronald W. Alford ("the employee"). We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.
"․ [I]n April of 2003, the [employee] sustained an injury to his left knee which resulted in a tear to the lateral meniscus in the knee. Said injury, the Court finds, arose out of and in the ․ course of [the employee's] employment with the [employer].
"․ The Court finds that the [employer] was notified of the [employee's] on-the-job injury on or about June 6, 2003, which the Court finds was timely notice to the [employer].
"․ The Court further finds that the [employer] suffered no prejudice by the [employee's] delay in reporting his injury to the [employer].
"․ Subsequent to the [employee's] on-the-job injury he underwent treatment and eventually surgery was performed on [his] injured knee. Although at the time of the [employee's] injury, he apparently had some arthritis in the knee, the record is clear that the [employee] was asymptomatic of pain in his knee prior to his on the job injury and was fully capable of performing all of the necessary duties and obligations and functions required of his job as a process associate with the [employer]. Subsequent to the surgery being performed on the [employee], and after [he had] reached maximum medical improvement, certain permanent work restrictions were placed on the [employee] by his treating physician, Dr. George J. Douthit, Jr., which included but were not necessarily limited to the following: no squatting, no kneeling, no crawling, no prolonged standing, no standing over one hour without a 15 minute [period of sitting]. A Functional Capacities Evaluation performed on the [employee] was what the doctor used in part as a guide for placing the permanent work restrictions on the [employee]. Dr. Douthit determined that the [employee] had suffered a 3% impairment to his body as a whole as a result of his knee injury. Based on these permanent restrictions placed on the [employee], the [employer] determined that the [employee] could no longer perform the essential job duties and functions of a process associate. Moreover, Dr. Douthit testified in his deposition that in addition to permanent restrictions he placed on the [employee] ․ it would be very difficult and problematical for the [employee] to engage in additional job related functions such as climbing stairs, repetitive squatting or walking, or climbing a ladder [;] therefore[,] the [employee] has, in the Court's opinion, additional permanent restrictions on his ability to perform certain job functions. The Court notes that the [employee] has continued to have problems with his knee which has required ongoing treatment by Dr. Douthit.
"․ The Court finds[ ] that in addition to the injury to the [employee's] knee, the [employee] suffered a subsequent injury to his lower back[ ] (i.e., a ruptured lumbar disc). The Court is convinced that the back problems suffered by the [employee] are a direct result of [his] on-the-job injury to his knee. The [employee's] favoring his injured knee caused additional strain on [his] back. The [employee] had no back problems prior to his knee injury. This opinion by the Court is supported by the [employee's] testimony[;] the records of Dr. James G. White, the neurosurgeon who treated the [employee] for his back problems[;] and the testimony of Dr. Douthit. The Court believes that the [employee's] back condition further inhibits [his] ability to perform certain job functions and places additional physical restrictions and limitations on his activities. The [employee] continues to have periodic back problems.
"․ The Court heard testimony from vocational rehabilitation consultants for the [parties] who both evaluated the [employee]. The Court finds that the testimony of Jo Spradling, who testified on behalf of the [employee], to be more compelling than the testimony of Ms. Marcia Schulman, who testified for the [employer]. Ms. Spradling testified that based on the permanent physical restrictions placed on the [employee] by Dr. Douthit, as well as other limitations, the [employee] would be 100% vocationally disabled. Ms. Spradling testified that the [employee] would not be able to return to his trade or find gainful employment. It appears to the Court that Ms. Spradling's opinion is based on a more complete evaluation of the [employee's] educational background, prior work experience, age and particularly [his] post-injury limitations.
"․ The Court finds that the [employee] has sustained his burden of proof so as to entitle him to recover under the ․ Act ․ and the Court further finds that based upon the proof in this case, the [employee] has suffered a permanent and total loss of capacity to earn a livelihood as a proximate result of his on-the-job injury with the [employer] and he is entitled to receive future compensation from the [employer].
In its appeal, the employer asserts four discrete issues. Those issues, however, may be restated more simply as (a) whether the employee's claim was barred based upon his failure to give timely notice of his injury or to properly plead when the injury occurred, and (b) whether the trial court erred in determining that the effects of the employee's knee injury extended to his back so as to warrant the trial court's consideration of vocational-disability testimony and an award of benefits outside the schedule of injuries in the Act.
Under the Act, our review of the standard of proof and our consideration of other legal issues in a workers' compensation case are without a presumption of correctness. Ala.Code 1975, § 25-5-81(e)(1). In contrast, when we review a trial court's findings of fact, we will not reverse a judgment based upon those findings if those findings are supported by "substantial evidence," see § 25-5-81(e)(2), a term interpreted "to mean 'evidence of such weight and quality that fair-minded persons in the exercise of impartial judgment can reasonably infer the existence of the fact sought to be proved.' " Ex parte Trinity Indus., Inc., 680 So.2d 262, 268 (Ala.1996) (quoting West v. Founders Life Assurance Co. of Florida, 547 So.2d 870, 871 (Ala.1989)).
The record reveals that the employee, who was 62 years old and employed as a process associate for the employer at the pertinent time, suffered a fall when his foot slipped on the cover of a conveyor belt during the employee's normal working hours, causing the employee to "turn" his left knee. Although that fall occurred in late April 2003, the employee admitted at trial that he did not immediately report that injury to his supervisor because, he said, he did not believe that he had suffered a significant injury at that time and believed that the stiffness and swelling in his knee that arose a few days after the fall was "going to go away." The employee first reported his injury to the employer on June 6, 2003, which is the date of injury listed in the employee's "first report of injury" form and is the date of injury specified in the employee's complaint.
Fortenberry, 926 So.2d at 359. Although § 25-5-78 refers to notice of an "accident," Alabama caselaw indicates that the pertinent inquiry is whether the employer has received actual notice of the pertinent injury. See, e.g., Steele v. General Motors Corp., 705 So.2d 402, 404-06 (Ala.Civ.App.1997) (reversing trial court's judgment denying benefits; holding that worker's back injury did not manifest itself until he had enrolled in an alcohol-treatment program more than five days after accident and that oral notice of injury was given).
In this case, the employee unquestionably provided notice of his injury within 90 days of the injury; thus, under § 25-5-78, no "absolute bar to recovery" ever arose. Fortenberry, 926 So.2d at 359. Moreover, the trial court, in electing not to penalize the employee, could well have credited the employee's testimony that his injury did not initially seem significant enough to report; in Cook Transports, Inc. v. Beavers, 528 So.2d 875, 876-77 (Ala.Civ.App.1988), we affirmed a judgment awarding benefits under the Act accruing from the actual date of an employee's back injury, rather than the date the injury was reported, based upon testimony that the employee in that case believed that he had suffered only a muscle pull that could be alleviated with bed rest. Finally, that the employee in his complaint specified June 6, 2003, rather than a date in April 2003, as the date of his injury similarly does not warrant reversal under our Rules of Civil Procedure: as a noted treatise on the analogous federal rules observes, "[a]ny variance between the time ․ alleged in the complaint and the proof at trial will be governed by the provision in Rule 15(b) for amendments to conform to the evidence." 5A Charles A. Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice & Procedure § 1308 (3d ed.2004); see also id. at § 1497 (under Rule 15(c), amendments to a pleading that merely modify facts alleged in an earlier pleading will relate back to the date of the original pleading) and Newton Lumber Co. v. Owens, 682 So.2d 472 (Ala.Civ.App.1995) (affirming judgment based upon amendment to conform to evidence concerning actual injury date), writ quashed, 682 So.2d 475 (Ala.1996).1 We thus reject the employer's contentions to the effect that the trial court erred in awarding any benefits under the Act to the employee.
However, we reach a different conclusion as to the employer's contentions regarding whether the trial court improperly considered vocational-disability evidence and improperly awarded benefits outside the injury schedule in the Act, under which a claimant sustaining an injury resulting in a loss of use of a leg (such as the employee's knee injury in this case) is ordinarily to be compensated for a specified number of weeks based upon a fraction of the injured claimant's weekly wages. See Ala.Code 1975, §§ 25-5-57(a)(3)a.16. and 25-5-57(a)(3)d. In Boise Cascade Corp. v. Jackson, 997 So.2d 1026 (Ala.Civ.App.2007), we recently noted that under current Alabama Supreme Court precedent, an employee who sustains an injury to a scheduled member is to be awarded compensation based upon the schedule unless " ' "the effects of the loss of the member extend to other parts of the body and interfere with their efficiency," ' " i.e., "the injury to the scheduled member [must] be ' "accompanied by other physical disability (of the body)." ' " 997 So.2d at 1034-35 (quoting Ex parte Drummond Co., 837 So.2d 831, 834, 835 (Ala.2002), quoting in turn 4 Lex K. Larson, Larson's Workers' Compensation Law § 87.02 (2001) and Leach Mfg. Co. v. Puckett, 284 Ala. 209, 214, 224 So.2d 242, 247 (1969)).2 After reviewing a number of authorities from other states that adhere to the "effects" test specified in Ex parte Drummond, this court in Boise Cascade reversed that portion of a workers' compensation judgment determining that the claimant had suffered a back injury; we held that an employee "may not recover nonscheduled disability benefits ․ on the basis of complaints of back pain in the absence of a showing that the injury to [the scheduled member] has caused a permanent physical injury to [the employee's] back." 997 So.2d at 1036 (emphasis added).
The trial court in this case, in concluding that the effects of the employee's knee injury extended to the employee's back, based its conclusion upon the testimony of the employee; the deposition testimony of the employee's treating physician, Dr. George Douthit; and the medical records of the neurosurgeon who treated the employee for his subsequent back problem, Dr. James White. Dr. White's records indicate that the employee was referred to him in February 2005, almost two years after the employee's knee injury, by Dr. Jason Junkins, a physician who had treated the employee for renal stones several years previously. The employee also underwent a magnetic-resonance-imaging ("MRI") procedure, the report of which identified "discogenic degenerative changes," bulging, narrowing, and herniation in the lumbar region of the employee's spinal column. After that MRI procedure had taken place, Dr. White reported that although the employee had been "hurting real bad in his back and into his groin," the employee's condition had "gotten a lot better," leaving the employee with "some chronic back pain but not nearly enough to want to have any intervention or any further testing"; according to Dr. White, as long as the employee's condition did not worsen, he would need "no further intervention," and no further testing was recommended. Notably, there is no indication in Dr. White's records that the employee's back-pain symptoms stemmed from his knee injury.
Dr. Douthit testified at his May 2005 deposition that the employee had not complained to him of any back pain or of pain radiating to his lower extremities. Although Dr. Douthit testified that it was possible that a person sustaining a knee injury could favor that person's other, uninjured knee and thereby put additional strain on the person's back, he expressed surprise that the employee in this case had been seen by another physician for a spinal-disk condition. Dr. Douthit further opined that he had not expected the employee to suffer disk problems as a result of his injury.
The employee testified at trial that he had suffered a sudden onset of back pain for the first time after his knee injury and that he had been referred to Dr. White at that time. When he was asked at trial during direct examination whether he would attribute his back problems to his knee injury, the employee testified, over the employer's competency objection, "The way I have to walk and all, yeah, I think so"; he added that the physical therapy he underwent after his knee injury "was affecting my right knee, so I'm sure it affects my back." However, on cross-examination, the employee admitted that he had not reported any back-pain symptoms to Dr. Douthit, his authorized treating physician, during the preceding three years.
To be sure, under Alabama law, expert medical testimony is not required in every case to prove medical causation by substantial evidence.3 See Ex parte Price, 555 So.2d 1060, 1061 (Ala.1989). Yet both the Supreme Court and this court have emphasized that it is " 'the overall substance and effect of the whole of the evidence, when viewed in the full context of all the lay and expert evidence, and not ․ the witness's use of any magical words or phrases,' " that is the analytical touchstone in this context. Ex parte Southern Energy Homes, Inc., 873 So.2d 1116, 1121 (Ala.2003) (some emphasis added; quoting Price, 555 So.2d at 1063); accord Madix, Inc. v. Champion, 927 So.2d 833, 837 (Ala.Civ.App.2005), and Chadwick Timber Co. v. Philon, [Ms. 2050697, March 16, 2007] --- So.3d ----, ---- (Ala.Civ.App.2007).
In Chadwick Timber, this court considered, among other things, whether a judgment awarding benefits outside the schedule of members in the Act to a claimant who had sustained a work-related leg injury could properly be affirmed based upon the theory that the effects of the claimant's leg injury had extended to his back. In that case, the claimant, like the employee in this case, had asserted that "changes in his gait caused by his ․ injury affected his back, causing him to suffer back pain and contributing to what he claims is his permanent total disability." 10 So.3d at ----. We rejected the claimant's argument based upon the dearth of causation evidence other than the claimant's own testimony; the only other pertinent evidence was the testimony of the claimant's physician, who stated that "it was possible, but not likely, that the back pain was caused by a change in [the claimant's] gait." 10 So.3d at ----. Under those circumstances, we concluded that the claimant had adduced nothing " ' "more than evidence of mere possibilities" ' " that his back injury was related to his leg injury and that the employer should not be "guessed" into liability. 10 So.3d at ----. To like effect is Boise Cascade, in which the medical evidence reflected only a possibility that the claimant's back-pain symptoms had arisen because of an antalgic gait, yet no evidence showed that the claimant actually walked with such a gait. 997 So.2d at 1031.
In this case, the employee has testified that he experienced back pain after sustaining his knee injury. However, the employee has sought medical attention for that back pain on only one occasion, in February 2005, at which time the employee was diagnosed with chronic back pain that was insufficient to warrant further medical intervention or testing. No medical evidence connected the medical conditions present in the employee's spinal column to the knee injury he had sustained while working for the employer. Moreover, as in Chadwick Timber, no medical evidence adduced at trial would support anything other than the mere possibility that a lower-extremity injury could have caused back pain via a change in the injured person's gait; indeed, in this case, Dr. Douthit expressed surprise that the employee would have suffered back pain after the knee injury. As a result, we cannot conclude that that portion of the trial court's judgment awarding benefits beyond those specified in the schedule of members in the Act is supported by substantial evidence.
To the extent that the trial court concluded that the employee is entitled to benefits under the Act despite his delay in giving notice of his injury, its judgment is affirmed. To the extent that the trial court, in its judgment, awarded benefits outside those provided for in the Act for injuries to scheduled members, its judgment is due to be reversed. The cause is remanded for the entry of a judgment, or for further proceedings, consistent with this court's opinion. Moreover, "[b]ecause the employee's injury falls within the schedule, the trial court erred in receiving evidence relating to the employee's loss of earning capacity"; therefore, "[o]n remand, the trial court [should] calculate the scheduled disability benefits without consideration of any ․ evidence of vocational disability, including the testimony of ․ vocational experts and any evidence relating to the impact of the injury on the employee's ability to obtain employment and earn wages." Boise Cascade, 997 So.2d at 1037-38.
AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART; AND REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS.
1. Unlike in Fort James Operating Co. v. Crump, 947 So.2d 1053 (Ala.Civ.App.2005), we are not here confronted with two separate incidents leading to similar but separate injuries; it is undisputed that the employee in this case suffered only one injury.
2. Drummond expressly abrogated caselaw standing for the proposition, relied upon by the employee in this case, that "an abnormal and unusual incapacity with respect to the member" will permit an employee suffering an injury to a scheduled member to be compensated outside the schedule. 837 So.2d at 835 n. 10.
3. In the absence of any pertinent argument from the parties to the contrary, we assume, without deciding, that the employee's allegation that his back pain resulted from an accidental traumatic injury to his knee rendered inapplicable the "clear and convincing evidence" standard of proof under the Act governing claims stemming from injuries resulting from gradual deterioration or cumulative-physical-stress disorders (see generally § 25-5-81(c), Ala.Code 1975).
THOMPSON, P.J., and BRYAN, THOMAS, and MOORE, JJ., concur.


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Section 3A. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term "savings promotion raffle" shall mean a contest in which the sole consideration required for a chance of winning designated prizes is obtained by the deposit of a specified amount of money in a savings account or other savings program where each ticket or entry has an equal chance of being drawn and where the contest is subject to regulations that may be promulgated by the appropriate federal regulatory agency, as defined by 12 U.S.C. 5481.
(b) A bank may receive deposits in conjunction with a savings promotion raffle pursuant to the federal American Savings Promotion Act, Public Law 113-251. A savings promotion raffle conducted pursuant to this section shall not be a violation of section 7 of chapter 271.
(c) The commissioner shall promulgate regulations necessary to implement and administer this section.
Section 6B. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term "savings promotion raffle" shall mean a contest in which the sole consideration required for a chance of winning designated prizes is obtained by the deposit of a specified amount of money in a savings account or other savings program where each ticket or entry has an equal chance of being drawn and where the contest is subject to regulations that may be promulgated by the appropriate federal regulatory agency, as defined by 12 U.S.C. 5481.
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  }

  public void setTotalVerts(int value) {
    VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_TotalVerts_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public int getTotalVerts() {
    return VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_TotalVerts_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setCulledVerts(int value) {
    VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_CulledVerts_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public int getCulledVerts() {
    return VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_CulledVerts_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setRenderStateChanges(int value) {
    VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_RenderStateChanges_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public int getRenderStateChanges() {
    return VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_RenderStateChanges_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setPrimsRendered(int value) {
    VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_PrimsRendered_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public int getPrimsRendered() {
    return VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_PrimsRendered_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setStartTime(float value) {
    VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_StartTime_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public float getStartTime() {
    return VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_StartTime_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setEndTime(float value) {
    VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_EndTime_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public float getEndTime() {
    return VixenLibJNI.SceneStats_EndTime_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public SceneStats() {
    this(VixenLibJNI.new_SceneStats(), true);
  }

}